Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 10/13] libxl: set nic type to VIF by default

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> In the past this was not a problem, since when the guest is PV, we
> didn't launch Qemu, and thus the tap device was never created and the
> hotplug scripts were not launched. Now that we launch hotplug scripts
> from libxl this is a problem, because when we call libxl_device_nic_add,
> libxl has no idea if the domain is a PV or HVM guest, and only sees the
> network type, which is set to IOEMU by default.
>
> This is the main problem, I think it should be ok to leave the default
> type as IOEMU in libxl__device_nic_setdefault and set the type manually
> to VIF for PV guests in
> libxl_create.c:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault, does this sound ok?
My bad, libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault doesn't have access to
libxl_domain_config, I will search for another place...

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